Texas attorney general and Republican Senate primary candidate Ken Paxton commented in response to a post from an overt neo-Nazi account on Tuesday.
The account in question, called @FischerKing64, had posted on X, "There are 93 total positions for US attorneys across the country. 62 are vacant — no Senate confirmation, and acting attorneys do the job. This is after over a year of the Trump administration. If you can’t fill 2/3 of US attorney positions, the system is broken."
Paxton, a far-right Trump ally who is seeking to take down incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn, concurred, replying, "This needs to be fixed immediately. It’s one of the most important issues."
In response, Texas Observer special correspondent Steven Monacelli posted, "Fascinating post here from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Not the content, but the person he replied to: a guy who has made posts defending the honor of the Nazi Wehrmacht, describing fascism favorably, and praising Spanish fascist dictator Franco."
Among other things, the account Paxton responded to previously posted that there was an unfair "smear campaign" against Wehrmacht soldiers, saying that Franco did a good job "suppressing communists," and saying that fascism is "the solution to the Second Law of Thermodynamics in politics."
Paxton, who has had a hand in everything from trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election to enforcing draconian anti-abortion laws that have allegedly killed multiple women, is at least a slight favorite in most current polls of the race, which also includes Rep. Wesley Hunt.
Trump has not currently made an endorsement of any candidate, with early voting set to begin in a matter of days.
